"And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel...shall be as a dream of a night vision. It shall even be as when a hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty..." Isaiah 29:7, 8
Our enemy's victories are temporal and corporeal. "The body they may kill; God's truth abideth still." They may take and destroy cities and capture and kill bodies, but they are only touching that which is fleeting, that which is of the Shadowlands, that which is of the Dream World. When all awake to the light of God's day, the enemy will find their victories and accomplishments hollow. Only that which was of God lasted to the break of day.
The world and its troubles seem all too real to us. The enemy loves to distract us with its sensuous reality. The truth is that there is something higher, greater, and more real than this world, a Reality above reality, and that Reality is God. If we belong to Him, then we belong to the stuff that lasts. When we awaken from the dream and this present world is consumed into and made anew by the light of God's presence, we will be amazed that what we took as real, what we thought mattered, was only shadows that fade before the rising Sun.
The world is not an illusion: it is there and it is real, and the pain and troubles are real. The point is that this world is not all that is there or real. God's unveiled presence will one day transform the dream into reality. Until then, we take His reality to the dream.
"We are Minds Awake
In a World of Sleepers.
May the Light of the Son
Awaken the Sleepers
To the Dawn..."
-Jon Vowell
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